I guess anyone is knowing Douglas Adams’ “Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy”, and the depressed robot Marvin? Well, robot Marvin sings the blues and moans about his existence and is probably one of the more favorite and tragic musical robots (maybe beside Futurama’s, Bender, who maniacally turns into a folk singer when approaching magnetism).

With this in mind, I prepared a talk about robots and music, which I will be holding at the famous hacker conference 29C3 end December in Hamburg (Germany)! Yeeeha!
The main theme will be: concepts of automated and robotic music instruments in general and the Robot Drum Installation MR-808 in particular. Of course I will try to find a place for the MR-808 at the congress as well, to show a diverting performance and have something to talk about.